Social Studies HS Guide

■ Close Reading POSSIBLE GUIDING AND INQUIRY QUESTIONS

● What economic forces contributed to 20th century global con fl icts? ● How were independence movements of different eras similar or different? ● How can case studies or microhistories of speci fi c genocides, epidemics, technological developments, population movements, or reform efforts help us understand global patterns? ● How are genocides justi fi ed and carried out? ● How did art and literary movements re fl ect reactions to global events and ideas? ● What struggles were experienced by nations that were late to industrialize? ● What factors determined how nations aligned themselves during the Cold War? VOCABULARY ● total war ● depression ● genocide ● decolonization ● othering ● demonization ● extremism ● liberalism ● self-determinism ● socialism ● surrealism ● Cold War

● case studies ● Vietnam War ● Great Leap Forward ● Berlin Wall ● East and West Germany ● NATO ● Warsaw Pact ● proxy wars ● culture ● epidemic ● human migration ● social welfare systems ● dictators ● nuclear arms race ● human rights

● liberation theology ● civil disobedience ● autonomy ● apartheid ● terrorism ● separatist movements ● ethnocentrism ● pan-Africanism ● primary sources ● secondary sources

● contextualize ● conservatism

● cubism ● facism

RESOURCES

Vietnam War Berlin Wall Cold War The Holocaust Genocide Case Study AP Historical Thinking Skills AP Reasoning Processes ASSESSMENTS

KEY LANGUAGE USES: Argue

Use PLC CFAs (Common Formative Assessments.)

Sample End of Unit Competency: Students will make a case for the most signi fi cant social, political, and economic consequences of 20th century global con fl icts